who is entitled the M'Bon—is an educated man, whom the
captured heroine and hero have met in Mayfair. It is, perhaps, not the fault of the author that the abominable sentiments which this gentleman utters in an Oxford accent ring in the reader's ears in the accents of Mr. George Arliss. The novel is full of exciting incidents, and the final device by Which virtne triumphs is even more ingenious than that in The Green Goddess. Those Young Married People. By John Travers. {-Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. The probletnswhich arisein post-War marriages are described in this novel witiCbods-iderable powers of observation. Indeed, the more interesting part of the book is the earlier half, in which the relations of various Anglo-Indian married couple are dissected. The latter half, in which the husband of the ample %most often dealt with is " axed " :from the Army, and the seene changes to London, is not so .original. The whole novel, however, is well worth reading.-+--The Rector's Daughter. By M. Mayor. (Leonard and Virginia Woolf. 7s. 6d. net.)--Mi. Mayor in The Rector's Daughter gives a detailed picture of the life of an English woman of early middle age living in an East Country village. The book is 'well and carefully written, but there is nothing specially original in the author's Point of view, or in his treatment of his subject.
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